10 reasons we’ll always love Gilbert Blythe.featured

by Pilar Clark on 04/18/2015

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Before Theodore Laurence, Westley and Mark Darcy transfixed us with their literary charm, there was Gilbert Blythe.

And for kindred spirits who fell for fiery Anne Shirley (Megan Follows) and incorrigible schoolboy Gil (Jonathan Crombie), the mid-1980s were all about carrots, broken slates, bosom friends, raspberry cordial, dark black tresses, puffed sleeves, epic romance, and forever committing flowery sentimentalities from Anne of Green Gables to memory.

The news that Canadian actor Crombie passed away after suffering a sudden brain hemorrhage in New York earlier this week has sent the Green Gables fandom into the depths of despair, and as we try to wrap our own hearts and minds around this tragic loss, our lives are a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Losing Crombie is akin to losing a first love, the best of childhood chums and the boy next door-turned-PBS crush who set the romance bar higher than the ridgepole of a roof.

These are the moments that will always make us swoon, and are the 10 reasons we’ll always love Gilbert Blythe:

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Thea AUTHOR1

I’ve been fangirling all day today because it’s Lucy Maud Montgomery’s birthday…. I’m so glad to have found your website*^_^ I loved the Green Gables books and the movies with Meagan Follows and Jonathan Crombie….
This was such a well written piece; I loved and understood all of the references!

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Dearest Geeks of Earth AUTHOR2

Thanks, Leticia. Appreciate the kind words! xoxo

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Leticia Barr AUTHOR3

I love this! What a lovely tribute with some amazing quotes!

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Michelle Brennan AUTHOR4

I hadn’t heard of this monumental passing. I believe Gilbert was a true romantic and I loved my time watching Anne. I think I have to pull it out again for my kids to watch,

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- Dearest Geeks of Earth AUTHOR4.1
  
  Monumental indeed, Michelle. I’m looking forward to sharing the movies with my two as well.
  
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Divina AUTHOR5

Pilar you are so sweet I love this homage to him. When I saw that news I was a little sad 48 is so very young and we will alway remember that boy we wished would love us so.

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- Dearest Geeks of Earth AUTHOR5.1
  
  Aww, thanks, Divina. Gilbert Blythe was my first literary love, and the world will most definitely shine a little less brighter without the man who brought him to life in it.
  
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Scarlet AUTHOR6

I love Anne of Green Gables growing up and I read the whole series. I love your 10 reasons too!

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- Dearest Geeks of Earth AUTHOR6.1
  
  Thanks, Scarlet. “Anne of Green Gables” is made of nothing but win. The books, the movies, the cartoon – we loved them all.
  
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